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Screwy keyboard behavior in GDMI recently had a problem on a Debian Testing machine that may have involved bad sectors on /usr partition. The machine uses Reiserfs v3 and I ran reiserfsck --rebuild-tree. After that I noticed that when GDM starts, the keyboard does not work properly. If I press any key, it changes the display resolution! So I can't type a user name or password to login. I am not 100% certain that this is a GDM problem, but that it just my current working hypothesis. Other files on the partition seemed to have been corrupted, so I used aptitude to basically reinstall everything. Still I have this keyboard problem. Has anyone here heard of a similar keyboard behavior? Any suggestions? I can provide configuration and log files if helpful, but I don't know which ones are relevant yet. Thanks in advance, P.S. I know I need to get a new hard disk, but in the meantime I'd like to find a way through this problem. Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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gdm or gnome?
Are you having the problem at the login screen (in which case it may be GDM) or after you've logged in?
It could be a screwy config file if your HD is going bad. Start in 'single' mode and check out the logs in /var/log. If everything else seems to be OK, try checking the X configuration file.